Welcome to the ultimate guide to California Family Fitness. We've rounded up all our expertise on this page—giving you everything you needed to know about the popular gym chain.
Welcome to the ultimate guide to California Family Fitness. We've rounded up all our expertise on this page—giving you everything you needed to know about the popular gym chain.
California Family Fitness clubs are large, inviting, and absolutely family friendly. As such, they've built their 18 gyms to focus on amenities that people of all ages can enjoy. With an average (huge!) gym size of 58,000 square feet, here's what you can expect:
Collectively, these 4 amenities are those you typically may not see at cheaper, more budget gym chains.
While comprehensive, Cal Fit doesn't offer everything—none of their clubs have:
But—to be clear—we're nitpicking a bit, since it's rare to find (at least the last two bullet points). Cal Fit is a very well rounded gym chain that those in California should be lucky to have.
Of course, all your standard gym offerings are there:
California Family Fitness was founded in 1991 in Rocklin, California. The current CEO is Randy Karr. The headquarters are located in Orangevale, California.
Every location has their own specific hours. But, most of the gyms we've seen from California Family Fitness are open:
The total amount of locations we're tracking from this fitness chain.
Room for activities! Average square footage of their gyms.
How much you can expect to pay for the entry-level membership every month
Amazing amenity set that ensures fun and fitness for the whole family. Seriously: they have an activity for everybody in your squad.
A plethora of swimming and wet options. You've got your pick of lap pools, kiddie pools, splash pads, saunas and steam rooms.
Enormous footprint: an average of 58,000
Basketball and Tennis courts. Don't forget childcare when you've got a game or match to get to.
Pickleball! It's just around 70 gyms across the nation that offer up the popular, growing sport. Cal Fit has 5 of these courts.
While California Family Fitness checks off nearly all the boxes for most folks, there are still a few things we'd like to see.
They had a larger club network, with gyms spread out throughout California.
Their prices were more competitive aka lower! Look, we understand that the amount of amenities and services they offer are head and shoulders above other gym chains—but nothing wrong with wanting to save a few bucks, right?
Olympic lifting platforms were available at California Family Fitness. We don't see it listed at any of their gym web pages, but we do see it in some of their photos.
The "old" California Family Fitness gym chain merged with In-Shape, so we'll have to update pricing for this new super-mega gym. More to come!
We all have different bodies, different goals and different fitness journeys. Some gyms may fit a person better than others. So who would enjoy this gym most?
Free weights, strength machines and cardio equipment.
Nothing like the hot heat to warm muscles up.
An extra early or real late workout—your choice.
Stretch, sleds, bodyweight or box jumps. The turf area is the place to be.
Relieve pain post workout or soothe sore muscles.
Gym Pricing Tiers Explained
There are 3-4 main pricing tiers that nearly all gyms across the country fall into. Generally, higher prices = more amenities and services.
$10 - $25 /month — Value
$15 - $30 /month — High Value Low Price
$25 - $65 Monthly — Mid-Tier
$65 and up — Boutique/Specialty/Luxury
"Is this gym worth it?"
Use our guides to help inform and educate what a gym can offer your fitness lifestyle. Only you can truly decide if a gym is worth it!
California Family Fitness is one of our favorite gyms—really because of how friendly and open they are to welcoming families and those of all ages—even down to the babies!
December 2023 Update: In-Shape Fitness and California Family Fitness are merging into a single company, with official details January 2024. We'll update our review on this new, California-mega-gym-chain then.
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